Squatting spammers take over Facebook protest site
Spammers have seized control of a 1.5m user Facebook group.
A group campaigning against Facebook's redesign last year, entitled "5,000,000 against the new version of Facebook", has been taken over by get rich quick spammers, who have plastered the group's page with ads. The stated aims of the group have shifted as a result of the takeover, as a description of its objectives on the page demonstrate.
Links on the page redirect surfers to get rick quick tips and speed seduction websites. Legitimate posts have been deluged by the dubious product punts in much the same way that some newsgroup groups were turned into wastelands of rubbish years ago.
Quite how scallywags took over the Facebook group, which appears to have lapsed into neglect, remains unclear. What is clear is that squatting spammers are now calling the shots.
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